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Manuscript
One hundred sayings
Text title
Vernacular: صد ÙÙÙ Ù Ø§Ù ÙØ± اÙ٠ؤ٠ÙÙ٠عÙÙ
Author
Authority name: Ê»AliÌ ibn AbiÌ TÌ£aÌlib, Caliph, ca. 600-661
As-written name: Ê¿AlÄ« ibn AbÄ« ṬÄlib
Name, in vernacular: عÙÙ Ø¨Ù Ø§Ø¨Ù Ø·Ø§ÙØ¨
Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: d. 40 AH / 661 CE
Author
As-written name: RashÄ«d al-DÄ«n Muḥammad al-BalkhÄ« al-Vaá¹vÄá¹ (Waá¹wÄá¹)
Supplied name: RashÄ«d al-DÄ«n al-Vaá¹vÄá¹ (d. ca. 578 AH / 1182 CE)
Name, in vernacular: Ø±Ø´ÙØ¯ Ø§ÙØ¯ÙÙ Ù ØÙ د Ø§ÙØ¨Ùخ٠اÙÙØ·Ùاط
Note: Author name supplied by cataloger
Abstract
This illuminated copy of One hundred sayings, referred to as Miâat kalimah in Arabic and á¹¢ad kalimah in Persian and attributed to the fourth caliph of Islam, âAlÄ« ibn AbÄ« ṬÄlib (d. 40 AH / 661 CE), contains a Persian paraphrase (dubayt) by RashÄ«d al-DÄ«n Muḥammad al-BalkhÄ«, known as al-Vaá¹vÄá¹ (Waá¹wÄá¹) (d. ca. 578 AH / 1182 CE). The manuscript was completed in Iran sometime in the ninth century AH / fifteenth CE. The sayings of `Ali in Arabic are written in blue muḥaqqaq and gold thuluth scripts, and the Persian verses are written in black naskh scripts. The codex opens with an illuminated titlepiece inscribed in white tawqÄ« script (fol. 1b). The dark brown goatskin binding with central lobed medallion and pendants and doublures with filigree decoration may date to the ninth or tenth century AH / fifteenth or sixteenth CE.
Date
9th century AH / 15th CE
Genre
Devotional
Literary -- Prose
Literary -- Poetry
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic. The secondary language of this manuscript is Persian.
Support material
Paper
Cream laid paper; gold-flecked
Extent
Foliation: i+18+i
Flyleaf at end of codex a stub
Collation
Catchwords: None
Dimensions
14.5 cm wide by 21.0 cm high
Written surface
9.5 cm wide by 13.5 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. 1b - 18a:Decoration:
fol. 1b:
Binding
The binding is not original.
May date to the ninth or tenth century AH / fifteenth or sixteenth CE; dark brown goatskin (with flap); central lobed oval and pendants brushed with gold; red leather doublures with filigree decoration and central lobed oval; half-oval for flap
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Bibliography
Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (New York; KoÌln: E.J. Brill, 1996), 1: 39; S1: 486.
Contributors
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail
Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara
Publisher
The Walters Art Museum
License
Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.
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